# ![@ThatchEffendi Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::289120280.png) @ThatchEffendi Alexander Thatcher

Alexander Thatcher posts on X about in the, if you, art, culture the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[countries](/list/countries)  27.05% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  11.48% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  3.28% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  3.28% [finance](/list/finance)  3.28% [musicians](/list/musicians)  2.46% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  2.46% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  0.82% [gaming](/list/gaming)  0.82%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 9.84%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 5.74%, [art](/topic/art) #2812, [culture](/topic/culture) #715, [armenia](/topic/armenia) 4.1%, [history](/topic/history) 4.1%, [white](/topic/white) #538, [the most](/topic/the-most) 3.28%, [turkey](/topic/turkey) 2.46%, [movies](/topic/movies) #2171

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Why is there an Irish girl in Fallout [--] Did she arrive in Boston because of a post-apoclyptic potato famine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020961089736049095)  2026-02-09T20:40Z 17.5K followers, 202.4K engagements


"This really is starting to feel like 06-07: Total cultural collapse of the right people ready to move on a feeling eventually cemented by economic collapse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021286658700972355)  2026-02-10T18:14Z 17.5K followers, 275.9K engagements


"Do women and men who are physically attracted to men find Clavicular that attractive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022429554820747717)  2026-02-13T21:55Z 17.5K followers, 17.4K engagements


"Gen X Fusionist Republican devours his Groyper Zellenial staffer after JD Vance runs on a postliberal right platform in [----] and loses the entire midwest. Ohio - Governor Polling: 🔵 Acton: 46% (+7) 🔴 Ramaswamy: 45% (-4) Emerson / Dec [--] [----] (% change with August 2025) Ohio - Governor Polling: 🔵 Acton: 46% (+7) 🔴 Ramaswamy: 45% (-4) Emerson / Dec [--] [----] (% change with August 2025)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1999434742442393796)  2025-12-12T11:02Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Mehmet Oz thing is making me really sad. At it's best America is a place where people who fought in the old world can come together - Serbs going to Albanian bakeries because the burek is better Turks going to a Greek restaurant because there's no meyhane in the city. What's the point of the US if you just import contorted versions of old world hatreds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2016517796004282618)  2026-01-28T14:24Z 17.2K followers, 133.6K engagements


"Normie Writers on Turkey Who Don't Read Turkish: "It's so interesting that Turkey like so many Muslim countries is immune to secularization." 2/3rds of Turks Under 30: Death is a dreamless sleep we are the soldiers of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk we have cultural differences with the Greeks but Arabs are a subspecies and Afghans and Pakistanis aren't human one day the impure blood of the thieves who sold our country parcel by parcel to the Gulf will water the fields of Eskiehir https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016798711595078045 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016798711595078045"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2016798711595078045)  2026-01-29T09:00Z 17.3K followers, 117.7K engagements


"The Armenian community of California dates back to the 1880s. There were individuals there in the 1850s. Many of them have no connection to the Republic of Armenia - their ancestors left the Ottoman Empire and they likely spoke a dialect that's nearly unintelligible to the random person in Yerevan. Sometimes they didn't even speak Armenian as a first language. @GovPressOffice The Armenian population of California is a plague upon our republic. They all need to be denaturalized their anchor baby children put on buses and all sent back to their brown homeland. @GovPressOffice The Armenian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2016812348984418431)  2026-01-29T09:55Z 17.2K followers, 22.8K engagements


"Do you guys remember in New Vegas how you are introduced to Caesar's Legion with an effeminate Legion official introducing himself in front of the charred ruins of a town and a man who has gone completely insane because he was forced to kill all of his neighbors This is an actual line from the Fallout show referring to the NCR. https://t.co/QjSdvW2lz5 This is an actual line from the Fallout show referring to the NCR. https://t.co/QjSdvW2lz5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2016838316528685549)  2026-01-29T11:38Z 17.2K followers, 485.2K engagements


"Conservatives like to make fun of progressives for being NPCs who go behind the next big thing but it's genuinely astonishing that in the last [--] hours all of these animals have started talking like a drunk Dou Perinek. @GovPressOffice The Armenian population of California is a plague upon our republic. They all need to be denaturalized their anchor baby children put on buses and all sent back to their brown homeland. @GovPressOffice The Armenian population of California is a plague upon our republic. They all need to be denaturalized their anchor baby children put on buses and all sent back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2016943076493664369)  2026-01-29T18:34Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"How do you think the cast of friends would have responded if you'd told them at their first table read in 93-94 that in [----] in Batumi Georgia there would be little plastic dolls of them being sold at McDonald's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017006881693208636)  2026-01-29T22:48Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I joked on here once that Georgians were the inspiration for high fantasy dwarves and while I was writing out the joke I'd convinced myself it was possibly real Made a bamboo "Peace Pipe". It's rough arround the edges but it does the job https://t.co/hlq6LeJBPc Made a bamboo "Peace Pipe". It's rough arround the edges but it does the job https://t.co/hlq6LeJBPc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017030218397958562)  2026-01-30T00:20Z 17.3K followers, 456.4K engagements


"@Akaking_ako The Pathfinder games are made by a Russian studio that moved to Armenia and Cyprus and I am 1000000000000% sure that whoever did this art had Georgians in mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017037728420880508)  2026-01-30T00:50Z 17.2K followers, 11K engagements


"The Isreal of West Asia is Israel. are these people for real lol https://t.co/wlETFWFo9z are these people for real lol https://t.co/wlETFWFo9z"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017672586746900931)  2026-01-31T18:53Z 17.4K followers, 676.4K engagements


"I'm honestly getting tired of even seeing people post about Wuthering Heights. I've loved Patricia Highsmith adaptations since I was a freshman in college but Saltburn was too stupid to even know how to handle a Highsmith plot. It was genuinely Netflix's You level shit with actual nudity. You can't make me watch another of that director's movies. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017723049592721536 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017723049592721536"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017723049592721536)  2026-01-31T22:13Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Always remember you are [-------] acts of cruelty away from becoming a racially acceptable sexy teenager in [----] This is what America would look like if Trump used the Insurrection Act and we did [--] million deportations https://t.co/VyKsbgHFOf This is what America would look like if Trump used the Insurrection Act and we did [--] million deportations https://t.co/VyKsbgHFOf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017745329261519271)  2026-01-31T23:42Z 17.2K followers, 188.8K engagements


"Splitting my time between Tbilisi and stanbul since [----] has really convinced me of how silly a criteria "western civilization" is. Between Tbilisi and stanbul there's a 100% Salzburg-level European city in there somewhere but deciding which part is European and which part isn't is very silly. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018351071005925641 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018351071005925641"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018351071005925641)  2026-02-02T15:49Z 17.4K followers, 16K engagements


"Not only am I not Georgian I'm also 1.93m tall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018352404379369884)  2026-02-02T15:54Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"you mean the deranged cult obsessed with a reactionary racialist idea of returning to a previous america that is headed by a pedophile or the flawed but historically progressive expansionist republic that represents the good parts of 50s America If you had to pick Enclave or NCR https://t.co/O6wQlTqxgl If you had to pick Enclave or NCR https://t.co/O6wQlTqxgl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018354225521078618)  2026-02-02T16:02Z 17.3K followers, 194K engagements


"In Fallout: New Vegas you're seeing what's essentially a colonial endeavor of the NCR. California itself is much more developed especially as it annexed Vault City and San Francisco. The NCR has cars trains automobiles limited power armor. @ThatchEffendi Even though I would love the more high tech factions in any setting I feel like the NCR as they are more stable than the enclave @ThatchEffendi Even though I would love the more high tech factions in any setting I feel like the NCR as they are more stable than the enclave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018409720764141664)  2026-02-02T19:42Z 17.5K followers, 240.9K engagements


"Yeah TBH I think if you read lore sources on something like FO:NV you have to imagine that a place like Shady Shands had a population in the hundreds of thousands. I don't know why on the show pre-nuke it looked like a quietly prosperous medium-sized town and one that looked more immediately postnuclear than it did in the original game which was set decades earlier. @ThatchEffendi This is the shady sands we ought to have seen from the show if they wanted to have conflict with vault dwellers 'reclaiming' the wasteland the writers really did not care at all @ThatchEffendi This is the shady"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018639744163250247)  2026-02-03T10:56Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Colonialism and imperialism are a pretty consistent topic of interest in Obsidian games. Pillars of Eternity is set in what's essentially a high fantasy renaissance version of Colonial America - it's a breakaway colony - and the sequel Deadfire my favorite game from the last decade is set in a combination of the Caribbean and island Southeast Asia. It deconstructs white savior narratives while also not falling into Avatar noble savage tropes. Way more sophisticated world building than you see in BioWare games but also has more emotionally compelling characters than some other Obsidian titles."  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018676294725017672)  2026-02-03T13:21Z 17.4K followers, 80.1K engagements


"There were blonde people in Ancient Greece but they'd look a lot more like highland Albanians or people with lighter hair in Italy than a German. A lot of people you see today with lighter features in Greece have Slavic ancestors who were Hellenized during Byzantine colonization efforts in the Balkans between 800-1200. This is what Helen of Troy actually looked like https://t.co/Ga4qSeJMDe This is what Helen of Troy actually looked like https://t.co/Ga4qSeJMDe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018684573438111890)  2026-02-03T13:54Z 17.4K followers, 73.6K engagements


"It's easy to joke about this being Ottoman/Turkish but TBH Ottoman dress was so Byzantine-influenced and Byzantine dress so eastern-influenced that a bunch of the core elements of this have Byzantine roots. Traditional Greek dress from Constantinople. https://t.co/XPMDpmorPY Traditional Greek dress from Constantinople. https://t.co/XPMDpmorPY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018774924962254999)  2026-02-03T19:53Z 17.4K followers, 33.6K engagements


"Tbilisi is vastly poorer and this would soundly be beaten by a park outside the most rundown Soviet apartment building in the city Dubai has no nature 2mins from my apartment 👍🏾 https://t.co/Vxq7UrEPWZ Dubai has no nature 2mins from my apartment 👍🏾 https://t.co/Vxq7UrEPWZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019125381748711787)  2026-02-04T19:06Z 17.3K followers, 25.6K engagements


"Tito had so much heterosexuality in him that he condemned every subsequent generation of Slovenians to femmeboyhood. the fact that these are probably the [--] most famous slovenians https://t.co/NNJqZPRYxd the fact that these are probably the [--] most famous slovenians https://t.co/NNJqZPRYxd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019145505528303807)  2026-02-04T20:26Z 17.3K followers, 55.4K engagements


"It's kind of wild when Internet Meme Balkan History stuff hits people who've lived in the region. A Georgian ex-girlfiend was extremely online and put on a Serbian war song because she thought it was funny about a minute in she asked me why I was so upset and I explained that it was Serbs singing about a Bosniak baker-woman and I couldn't deal with it. Almost everything foreign "history nerds" talk about when it comes to Yugoslavia Almost everything foreign "history nerds" talk about when it comes to Yugoslavia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019194376019116097)  2026-02-04T23:40Z 17.2K followers, 55.9K engagements


"Veronica is gay. Chirs Avellone puts a melancholic frustrated lesbian in every game he touches. Denying the essential wokeness of Fallout is insane. This just in- Fallout universe tourist is transphobic on main because theyre too fucking dense to hide it behind any kind of feigned actual game knowledge. Women have always been allowed in the BOS- Youre just an asshole to a clearly trans actor. https://t.co/BTaa1YEpAw This just in- Fallout universe tourist is transphobic on main because theyre too fucking dense to hide it behind any kind of feigned actual game knowledge. Women have always been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019384912147853481)  2026-02-05T12:17Z 17.4K followers, 121.8K engagements


"no Caesar's Legion rocks because it's a story about a West Coast Straussian who becomes the head of a murderous homoerotic cult of statue pfps and chuds Of the many things people get wrong about the Legion it's the reason why people like them so much that most misunderstand. The Legion doesn't rock because they're Roman larpers in mini skirts they rock because they have the most fascinating characters. Severus. Lucius. Vulpes. https://t.co/lIrPaxheJL Of the many things people get wrong about the Legion it's the reason why people like them so much that most misunderstand. The Legion doesn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019411183028388233)  2026-02-05T14:01Z 17.4K followers, 77.1K engagements


"mormon father with his son who is doing the absolute bare minimum to stay in the closet Ive been scheming with my friend @ScottPresler Big things are in the works https://t.co/xr13GU7S4C Ive been scheming with my friend @ScottPresler Big things are in the works https://t.co/xr13GU7S4C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019503896322879928)  2026-02-05T20:10Z 17.4K followers, 98.8K engagements


"My entire life between the ages of 12-14 was Dune Fallout and Paradox games and I don't understand how those became culturally dominant or why I had the media consumption habits of a nerdy [--] year old in 2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019519906622894132)  2026-02-05T21:14Z 17.2K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Tweet Thread About Byzantine Culture That Took [--] Minutes To Research: ❤ [---] 🔁 [--] Tweet I Typed Out While Waiting For Water To Boil About How Every Conservative Who Plays Fallout: New Vegas Deserves To Die: ❤ [----] 🔁906"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019537662512947270)  2026-02-05T22:24Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I think there's some truth there but Benny in New Vegas looks sounds and acts like he's a minor character on the first season of Mad Men who's got pretensions to class but actually makes a living by pushing tea to beatniks in the Village. Late 50s/early 60s nostalgia in [----] was an extremely potent force. The shift in aesthetic starting with F4 seems like millennials taking over the art direction. The interplay games and F3 have a genX 90s edgelord gritty aesthetic while the new ones have the vibe of those millennial selfie museums with a kitcshy 50s theme. The shift in aesthetic starting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019547207154733482)  2026-02-05T23:02Z 17.4K followers, 126.6K engagements


"Yerevan is home to a thriving South Asian immigrant community and there's queer people there same as any other place on earth. Tbilisi and Yerevan have both seen a marked uptick in Indian immigration seemingly much of it from the far south. I don't want to go home where there are gay people LGBTQ people and the smell of India. Can someone in Armenia kidnap me I don't want to go home where there are gay people LGBTQ people and the smell of India. Can someone in Armenia kidnap me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019552503944343567)  2026-02-05T23:23Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"What is up with the Basques man. What is going on over there. Heatmap for Spain Iron Age Celt. Distances with modern populations. https://t.co/RAiy0x1uoa Heatmap for Spain Iron Age Celt. Distances with modern populations. https://t.co/RAiy0x1uoa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019728362143666504)  2026-02-06T11:02Z 17.5K followers, 117.8K engagements


"@razibkhan don't they have weirdly high WSH ancestry for a people who speak a non-Indo-European language"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019838036494663706)  2026-02-06T18:18Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This is maybe a bit blackpilled but I think a part of the love of New Vegas just reflects how culturally vacuous much of gaming is. Vegas benefits from the growth of Fallout as a brand and it's smart and fun without wearing intellectualism on its sleeve like Disco Elysium or Pentiment. If you're a teenager and you've been raised on Marvel slop and Bethesda slop and Call of Duty slop it's likely this game is one of the few bits of popular media you've consumed that has actual choice ambiguity can do tonal shifts without bathos makes real artistic decisions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019877709984493725)  2026-02-06T20:55Z 17.3K followers, 47.2K engagements


"Is there a good non-crank account of how crime in Portland got so bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019912806456254744)  2026-02-06T23:15Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This article is astonishing and I can't imagine having more contempt for anyone on earth than I do for Bashar. Just disgusting as a human being. Filth. As his regime crumbled Bashar al-Assad was obsessed with sex and video games and he refused every lifeline he was offered. Palace insiders told @robertfworth that Assad could have saved his regime if he hadnt been so stubborn and vain. https://t.co/22iS2Bmr5M As his regime crumbled Bashar al-Assad was obsessed with sex and video games and he refused every lifeline he was offered. Palace insiders told @robertfworth that Assad could have saved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019928048250835020)  2026-02-07T00:15Z 17.3K followers, 53.6K engagements


"@geogvma Candy Crush changed the history of the Middle East"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019945086432464958)  2026-02-07T01:23Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I think people are underselling the odds of some kind of Color Revolution in the US. I was in Georgia during the [--] protests and Turkey during the [--] protests. The regimes in both countries felt a lot more confident then than the one in the US does. I can't remember seeing the kind of backbiting between government propagandists that we're seeing in the US. I'm not predicting it still unlikely but I don't see the government gaining legitimacy somehow and I don't see people like Miller de-escalating. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020097163200483573"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020097163200483573)  2026-02-07T11:27Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Realistically Protests leading to mass-purge of the Miller types. Trump was basically out of the decision loop at several points in his first term we'd see a return to that. @ThatchEffendi what would a color revolution even mean for the US @ThatchEffendi what would a color revolution even mean for the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020116680534323369)  2026-02-07T12:45Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@nonregemesse Who were the conquered slaves in Rome in [---] The borders of the Empire had been relatively stable for over a century. Like surely the high-point of slaves in Italy were during the conquests after the Punic Wars and before the 3rd century crisis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020118896259342823)  2026-02-07T12:54Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements


"I don't understand how I'm able to love Austria so much when I hate Bavaria with every bone in my body AfD with a great start in the Bavarian municipal election campaign https://t.co/FuuFA446xH AfD with a great start in the Bavarian municipal election campaign https://t.co/FuuFA446xH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020119109283799512)  2026-02-07T12:55Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@Willofd55 I was just using "Color Revolution" to trigger people. I don't think that's how any of the major Color Revolutions actually worked. I was on the ground in Armenia in [----] the idea that the CIA was behind everything is very silly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020119382819541238)  2026-02-07T12:56Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements


"I know this is a ragebait position people say but don't actually believe but the relatively minimalist aesthetic of the Villenueve movies is in line with the art of John Schoenherr whose work Frank Herbert was extremely fond of. Dune is 60s retrofuture. It's arid brutalism. It looks like Soviet Yerevan. That's not an accident. That's not being boring. It's a creative choice one that was carefully considered and well executed. I'm going to say something unpopular. Dune [----] was a more enjoyable movie than the current version. Current version had better action sequences but the actors music and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020123848406872500)  2026-02-07T13:13Z 17.5K followers, 58.1K engagements


"I'm kind of sympathetic to this view TBH. The Turks were moving west with a very potent package of technologies and cultural mores. Their dominant position over a relatively narrow band of a whole chunk of Eurasia feels kind of overdetermined. @ThatchEffendi It's a cool sounding name though Doukas. Byzantines probably still would have lost at Manzikert anyway. Turks were in good form. @ThatchEffendi It's a cool sounding name though Doukas. Byzantines probably still would have lost at Manzikert anyway. Turks were in good form"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020126890124627998)  2026-02-07T13:25Z 17.3K followers, 50.7K engagements


"I'm pretty sure that [--] European districts of Istanbul had more than [------] people in [----] let alone the fact that the Turkish-origin population in Germany and Austria was already decades old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020249712780271990)  2026-02-07T21:34Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This is about Vienna. @The_Davos_Man Congrats your city still looks like a shithole. @The_Davos_Man Congrats your city still looks like a shithole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020435491485892986)  2026-02-08T09:52Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Do we have any evidence of Magyars participating in any fire rituals or is this just an educated Persian immediately associating paganism with elements of Zoroastrian worship The Magyars are a race of TurksThe Magyars are pagans worshipping fire. They make piratical raids on the Slavs. https://t.co/pW59rY2EcM The Magyars are a race of TurksThe Magyars are pagans worshipping fire. They make piratical raids on the Slavs. https://t.co/pW59rY2EcM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020491446650814562)  2026-02-08T13:34Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Genuinely very funny how much this maps on to descent form the Jastorf Culture. Apparently if you are a native speaker of a Western Germanic language you're intrinsically predisposed to yiffing. Reminder that the majority of furries are from Germany and England https://t.co/S1q5IbQKko Reminder that the majority of furries are from Germany and England https://t.co/S1q5IbQKko"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020498536245416143)  2026-02-08T14:02Z 17.3K followers, 15.4K engagements


"What do you think American Idiot was about I used to love Green Dayit was my favorite band in high school. Dookie was everything. It sucks when artists speak out about politics. https://t.co/Js7SibmWFy I used to love Green Dayit was my favorite band in high school. Dookie was everything. It sucks when artists speak out about politics. https://t.co/Js7SibmWFy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020499490659254310)  2026-02-08T14:06Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Antisemitism (unironic unselfconscious genuinely offensive) Antisemitism (playful self-conscious funny written and performed by Jewish artists) https://t.co/aO5LzXCdku https://t.co/aO5LzXCdku"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020503456524746850)  2026-02-08T14:22Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"IDK what's going on in Bethesda's creative process but it's genuinely kind of amazing to me how poorly conceived core elements of Fallout [--] are. I've played RPGs made by studios who were still trying to figure out how to do RPGs that were non-linear but still had a compelling core story but it kind of feels like something went so wrong so early in FO4's design that it's not a matter of learning curve so much as the culture of the studio being broken. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020506700365672635 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020506700365672635"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020506700365672635)  2026-02-08T14:35Z 17.4K followers, 46.9K engagements


"There's actually interesting stuff going on in the game but it feels like finding a couple of decent short stories in a collection that's overall just very poorly thought out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020507120198623483)  2026-02-08T14:36Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Watching Chuds freak out over Bad Bunny is giving me a lot of not especially schaden freude. You guys did this. You guys made Woke cool again. The frisson is back. We're half a decade from Woke completely burning it's credibility away and over the last year the right completely blew their shot at cultural reaction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020828581379575826)  2026-02-09T11:54Z 17.4K followers, 10K engagements


"I've travelled a lot in the Post-Socialist space big cities and small towns and the worst thing I've ever encountered anywhere was in Budapest. It's a city almost defined by distrust melancholy and anomie. I'm sure the Postliberal Right has fun on their trips but I don't think they have any knowledge of the place beyond food alcohol and Fidesz-party official femmeboy brothels. My mate was treated for appendicitis in a Budapest hospital staff made him walk from one end of the building to the other while he was vomiting blood no one helped him. My mate was treated for appendicitis in a Budapest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020898914333811101)  2026-02-09T16:33Z 17.5K followers, 18.9K engagements


"It's a beautiful film but to some extent Austria just looks like this. I haven't spent much time in Salzkammergut where I think most of this was filmed but it's gorgeous. most beautiful film ever made https://t.co/dwgpyAgAXa most beautiful film ever made https://t.co/dwgpyAgAXa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020902108732543317)  2026-02-09T16:46Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"This isn't an insult to Budapest it's a fascinating place and I've had fun there but it's fundamentally dark"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020957518667862117)  2026-02-09T20:26Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I cannot overstate how normal this is in the Post-Socialist world. What fucking house is this where some rooms look like a typical modern middle class house and the next looks like a building from Fallout [--]. What fucking house is this where some rooms look like a typical modern middle class house and the next looks like a building from Fallout 3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020995132162715775)  2026-02-09T22:56Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Morgan is smirking because he knows how insane Kelly sounds and he's happy that this unpleasant person is losing control of the media narrative. NEW: Megyn Kelly absolutely rips Piers Morgan for defending the Bad Bunny halftime show says his smug attitude is why Great Britain has lost its culture to "radical Muslims." Kelly: This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country not for the Latinossss. Morgan: https://t.co/VUbNb3rgzY NEW: Megyn Kelly absolutely rips Piers Morgan for defending the Bad Bunny halftime show says his smug attitude is why Great Britain has lost its culture to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021156792462442887)  2026-02-10T09:38Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Oh Lord the Kid Rock jorts somehow look worse than I was anticipating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021162401027002563)  2026-02-10T10:00Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Fallout [--] is growing on me. The combat is fantastic and some of the underlying ideas are interesting enough to carry it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021188906775977998)  2026-02-10T11:46Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"things got very weird 2014-2022 heteropessimism is bad and if you start saying nice things about dworkin I reserve the right to turn my brain off and nod politely What opinion on FEMINISM will have you like this https://t.co/aj0l9Pgmze What opinion on FEMINISM will have you like this https://t.co/aj0l9Pgmze"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021193435596595396)  2026-02-10T12:04Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I don't know if people are going to be ready to go to jail to defend Donald Trump in November. This is Quiet Revolution numbers. Who did a better job as president 🔵 Biden 48% 🔴 Trump 40% Rasmussen #B - RV - 2/5 Who did a better job as president 🔵 Biden 48% 🔴 Trump 40% Rasmussen #B - RV - 2/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021251567362429025)  2026-02-10T15:55Z 17.4K followers, 50.4K engagements


"god this would make me so happy Did you know millions of people in Western Europe are descended from Alexios Komnenos through his great-grandchildren marrying into various royal houses James I of Aragon Philip IV of France Edward III of England and others are his descendants and through them many perhaps https://t.co/ZXSdTyFrPe Did you know millions of people in Western Europe are descended from Alexios Komnenos through his great-grandchildren marrying into various royal houses James I of Aragon Philip IV of France Edward III of England and others are his descendants and through them many"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021281938602926344)  2026-02-10T17:55Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Something I find funny about Hasan is how ledgible he is both in an American and a Turkish context. He really does occasionally sound like a rich kid Turkish Leftist Kaypakkaya-lover who would rather vote for the AKP than ever ever ever work with the CHP. When asked if hed vote for Gavin Newsom or JD Vance for president Hasan says hed vote 3rd party. This proves Hasan doesnt care about ANY of the marginalized groups he pretends to support. All he cares about is taking money from them so he can buy more outfits for stream. https://t.co/V7DMdM8YNY When asked if hed vote for Gavin Newsom or JD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021533829777764645)  2026-02-11T10:36Z 17.4K followers, 27K engagements


"Here's a fun fact. If in [----] you were to have two major sources of prediction about Trump [--] and one was edgy centrists/rightists talking about how based everything was going to be and one was the lyrics to the hipster-punk band The Thermal's [----] song I Might Need You To Kill about the takeover of the US by a combination of Fascists Fundamentalists and cranks you'd do better with the hipster-punks. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021571200586063917 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021571200586063917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021571200586063917)  2026-02-11T13:05Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@Baezantium I really don't know much Italian history of the period at least besides Sicily and Venice and a few Umberto Eco novels. Wish I knew more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021615934029410780)  2026-02-11T16:02Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Early/High Medieval Sicily has this Velvet Underground thing where the people who love Medieval Europe love it and it had an insanely outsized influence on everything that came after it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021702771246846175)  2026-02-11T21:47Z 17.4K followers, 12K engagements


"I think I'm giving up on Fallout [--]. I'm usually listening to an audiobook or podcast when I'm playing a game where I don't feel an obligation to give it my full attention. I usually don't do this when I'm playing a narrative game for the first time for obvious reasons but with FO4 I was re-listening to Didion's The While Album and when the audiobook finished I realized how uh totally barren the game was. The first two Fallout games and New Vegas are extremely important to me and I felt like someone had taken something I cared about and turned it into Minecraft. I'll finish some work and buy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021713363206639687)  2026-02-11T22:30Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements


"It sucks that this is one of the best adventure films ever made. The escape sequence in Apocalypto (2006) is still breathtaking. To capture authentic performances Mel Gibson scoured America for non-professional actors immersing the film in raw realism. https://t.co/UcLpbveXzi The escape sequence in Apocalypto (2006) is still breathtaking. To capture authentic performances Mel Gibson scoured America for non-professional actors immersing the film in raw realism. https://t.co/UcLpbveXzi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021846318180614553)  2026-02-12T07:18Z 17.5K followers, 17.1K engagements


"RT @pancaucasus: Soviet movie posters from the NEP era 1920s. The NEP era (New Economic Policy) was a unique period in Soviet history la"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021846565959377284)  2026-02-12T07:19Z 17.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Onu da Perineki yapmlar. ok oldum. Hasan said hes gonna vote third party in [----] if its Newsom vs Vance. Very based Hasan. Embrace your calling and become the Leninist you were always meant to be. The American Communist Party wont be supporting the two party duopoly either. https://t.co/QWgO4E9HeI Hasan said hes gonna vote third party in [----] if its Newsom vs Vance. Very based Hasan. Embrace your calling and become the Leninist you were always meant to be. The American Communist Party wont be supporting the two party duopoly either. https://t.co/QWgO4E9HeI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021851855786254616)  2026-02-12T07:40Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @nathanrobii:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021853152463753307)  2026-02-12T07:45Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @emrahgulsunar: lkenin cumhurbakannn ikamet ettii yerde lkenin kurucusunun portresi aslym. Ne kadar da beklenmedik bir durum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021870938824843421)  2026-02-12T08:56Z 17.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Anyone know where Mehmet Oz did his military service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021876057163370721)  2026-02-12T09:16Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @Alyunan00: The continuity of art in the Greek world. Saint Mark in a Greek 11th-century AD / lectionarium A philosophe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021876416371978289)  2026-02-12T09:17Z 17.4K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @AlBlaineau: Puret et dnuement de lart cycladique"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021882140099592484)  2026-02-12T09:40Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @Alyunan00: Frescoes from Hagia Sophia Trebizond Pontos 13th-century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021882245686898923)  2026-02-12T09:41Z 17.4K followers, [--] engagements


"RT @All_Lee24: Oh god my heir is a debate bro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021882391078334738)  2026-02-12T09:41Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"You guys sure you can keep this paper afloat Correction: A previous version of this post misidentified the South Caucasus as belonging to Russia. The region made up of territory in Armenia Georgia and Azerbaijan is not part of Russia. We deleted the previous tweet. https://t.co/OYsRkZiIPO Correction: A previous version of this post misidentified the South Caucasus as belonging to Russia. The region made up of territory in Armenia Georgia and Azerbaijan is not part of Russia. We deleted the previous tweet. https://t.co/OYsRkZiIPO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021936355740413998)  2026-02-12T13:16Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @SelimKoru: 🧵From my two-apart series on religiosity: Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization. The common thread Pol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021941015813534086)  2026-02-12T13:34Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"RT @ufakchar: sevdim bu ehri"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021946490101301290)  2026-02-12T13:56Z 17.4K followers, [--] engagements


"Given how central metallurgy was to the Celts and their expansion over most of Europe it's probably not a coincidence. Crazy how much the Celtic "Western Hallststatt" area correlates with the industrial heart of modern Germany (and Switzerland). It even includes western Saxony and Bohemia which both had a huge highly modern industry before Commis took over/the Germans got kicked out. https://t.co/CTLhfUecMy Crazy how much the Celtic "Western Hallststatt" area correlates with the industrial heart of modern Germany (and Switzerland). It even includes western Saxony and Bohemia which both had a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021946787515252851)  2026-02-12T13:57Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"RT @biggieU_U: They really put crack in the ambient music it's so oppressive but calming at the same time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021979530131648550)  2026-02-12T16:07Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"also obviously if you look like this dm me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022282171025686774)  2026-02-13T12:10Z 17.4K followers, [--] engagements


"genuinely close to the coolest costume I've ever seen "german expressionist supermatist byzatine princess" ticks every box I have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022283662482440298)  2026-02-13T12:16Z 17.4K followers, [--] engagements


"If anyone's interested in Armenophobia this piece was good enough for someone to break into my apartment and steal my passport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2016632081560871390)  2026-01-28T21:58Z 17.5K followers, 70.6K engagements


"fun fact this is from an adaptaiton of the most beloved Russian-language novel of the 20th century Typical cat owner experience-- https://t.co/OXQ7PHdw1o Typical cat owner experience-- https://t.co/OXQ7PHdw1o"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2017592487636795784)  2026-01-31T13:35Z 17.5K followers, 408.2K engagements


"Muslim calendar starts with the Hijrah the flight from Mecca to Medina. I don't understand finding this objectionable you have to let people have their own understanding of their own faith traditions especially when it's a Millenial American whose family were exiled from both Uganda and Gujarat. Zohran Mamdani: I consider my own faith Islam a religion built upon a narrative of migration. https://t.co/EHZGNN7hnn Zohran Mamdani: I consider my own faith Islam a religion built upon a narrative of migration. https://t.co/EHZGNN7hnn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020137380368339427)  2026-02-07T14:07Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Richard Rorty looks down from the afterlife and nods like that gif of Jack Nicholson I unironically love woke patriotism I love appropriating the things chuds care about and turning them against them. Why should they get to own America they're the ones who suck https://t.co/nXWiPU1U1L I unironically love woke patriotism I love appropriating the things chuds care about and turning them against them. Why should they get to own America they're the ones who suck https://t.co/nXWiPU1U1L"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020786259350692131)  2026-02-09T09:06Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"When I was 14-15 my interest in Byzantium began to include successors to Byzantium as well as broader Eastern Europe the Mediterranean and Caucasus. That's because I was interested in the history and cultures of the region beyond having a special team I rooted for in a history book or just wanting to hate people. Also people use some version of this insult all the time - You're an Armenian you're a Turk you're a Georgian - but I have the most English name of anyone I've ever met in my entire life and I'm not sure what has to go wrong in your education for you to think that Alexander Thatcher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021475777309487303)  2026-02-11T06:45Z 17.5K followers, 57.3K engagements


"Medieval Europe was just a fundamentally less urban place than Greco-Roman civilization especially outside of Italy. Byzantium and to an extent the Islamic World both maintained versions of Classical urbanism while the Migration Period in Europe made villages out of what were once major cities. I think it's wrong to view that as fundamentally "more advanced/less advanced" though. ok i think i need to update. i might just have been wrong in a major way. i double-checked at the [--] largest cities in western europe in [----] were like an order of magnitude smaller than the [--] largest western roman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021641945655783766)  2026-02-11T17:46Z 17.5K followers, 29K engagements


"Dagestani guy I know set up an anime cafe in a fancy neighborhood in Tbilisi. I wonder if there's a special appeal to Anime in a place as culturally conservative as Dagestan. An anime fan from Dagestan. Makhachkala [----]. Photo by Vladimir Sevrinovsky https://t.co/go8M0YnDm5 An anime fan from Dagestan. Makhachkala [----]. Photo by Vladimir Sevrinovsky https://t.co/go8M0YnDm5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021947986067304954)  2026-02-12T14:02Z 17.5K followers, 127.3K engagements


"Fun detail I noticed at the Belvedere in Vienna a few years ago: Whoever made this Renaissance painting appears to have based their depiction of Pontius Pilate on one of the more accurate depictions of John VIII Palaiologos at the Council of Florence. Pretty cool indication of how connected the Renaissance world was to the Byzantine one and seems to complicate our understanding that contemporary Catholic Europe did not think of the Byzantines as being fundamentally Roman. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022412119325507674 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022412119325507674"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022412119325507674)  2026-02-13T20:46Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Has anyone ever seen an explanation of why this goat did this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1998269692050575645)  2025-12-09T05:53Z 17.5K followers, 15M engagements


"In the late 90s the substitute teacher in our Japanese class an African American woman put the VHS for this on and only looked up from her newspaper during this scene and immediately shouted "WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING" Princess Mononoke (1997) https://t.co/5bdpdiJuTB Princess Mononoke (1997) https://t.co/5bdpdiJuTB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2003993754068516925)  2025-12-25T00:58Z 17.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"By the late Byzantine period Ottoman and Byzantine fashion trends had synthesized so completely that when Byzantine notables show up at things like the Council of Florence Italians mock them for looking like Turks. @ThatchEffendi nothing about this is Byzantine influence this was Byzantine fashin https://t.co/KlYF0f3Cz6 @ThatchEffendi nothing about this is Byzantine influence this was Byzantine fashin https://t.co/KlYF0f3Cz6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2018809756849512747)  2026-02-03T22:12Z 17.5K followers, 52.9K engagements


"His body language completely shifts. It's insane. when you get too Japanese and end up becoming the head of equities at goldman in Japan https://t.co/8UqKePmskA when you get too Japanese and end up becoming the head of equities at goldman in Japan https://t.co/8UqKePmskA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021345819979637217)  2026-02-10T22:09Z 17.5K followers, 1.6M engagements


"I've made some version of this point before but trying to prove that ethnic Turks aren't Turkish through exaggerated claims about population genetics is terrible behavior. 1) It's based on a false premise in that that the average Medieval Central Asian ancestry of an ethnic Turk- meaning the proportion of their ancestry that arrived in the region from Central Asia after 1060-is relatively normal for a major ethnic/cultural/linguistic shift. There are people with below this average and people above this average. It's not actually mysterious. 2) Ethnic/linguistic/national identities are not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021941134088368366)  2026-02-12T13:35Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"If Minneapolis sinks Trumpism does that mean Nick Shirley saved American Democracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022351666268524598)  2026-02-13T16:46Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"You would just not have been able to explain to my Puritan New England ancestors that they had something in common with a Sicilian because of their shared skin color. In part because they didn't even share a skin color. Your entire concept of whiteness is very clearly an artifact of the formation of a new culture in Anglo North America it is contingent on Afro-Eurasian migration to the Americas it is absurd to claim that every 1/4th Irish 1/2 German 1/4th Serbian guy in Chicago has an intrinsic blood connection to Alexander the Great Beethoven and Oleg Nikolayev the head of Chuvashia. White"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022735881333874718)  2026-02-14T18:13Z 17.5K followers, 18.8K engagements


"RT @maiamindel: Kinda crazy how the US economy is only growing because of investment in The God Brain but the US labor market is only growi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021948824391233869)  2026-02-12T14:05Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"wow if only there was good art about a crazed and hubristic empire sending men to die in a pointless incompetent and dumb arctic mission"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2012830194118119701)  2026-01-18T10:11Z 17.5K followers, 1.2M engagements


"I would not recommend doing this. A huge controversy in Circassian twitter in [----] was a Pakistani guy in Londo who had some kind of melt down and wouldn't stop posting about how much he wanted a Circassian wife. Ultimately some guy told him "if you come here you will disappear." https://t.co/TCZKW45c9E https://t.co/TCZKW45c9E"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019387527266763088)  2026-02-05T12:27Z 17.5K followers, 152.3K engagements


"one day God will punish you for this This might be the best alt-history scenario yet. https://t.co/9u5gGLG5ml This might be the best alt-history scenario yet. https://t.co/9u5gGLG5ml"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022048626269446635)  2026-02-12T20:42Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"This is so insane. These people are out of their minds. Turning Point USA is allegedly "purging" staffers after Candace Owens's crazy theories about TPUSA's involvement in Charlie Kirk's murder started to catch on with their own employees. My latest False Flag newsletter for @BulwarkOnline: https://t.co/k7Y3CiEcAV Turning Point USA is allegedly "purging" staffers after Candace Owens's crazy theories about TPUSA's involvement in Charlie Kirk's murder started to catch on with their own employees. My latest False Flag newsletter for @BulwarkOnline: https://t.co/k7Y3CiEcAV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022061147101573554)  2026-02-12T21:32Z 17.5K followers, 31.4K engagements


"Fallout discourse is like 80% people arguing which post-FO1 developers engage in the most egregious bid'ah and ijtihad. One of the biggest challenges for Modern Fallout fans to understand is that Fallout was never supposed to be a 1950s Amusement Park. The 50s aesthetics were only ever supposed to be on the edges of the setting. Even Fallout [--] gets this wrong. One of the biggest challenges for Modern Fallout fans to understand is that Fallout was never supposed to be a 1950s Amusement Park. The 50s aesthetics were only ever supposed to be on the edges of the setting. Even Fallout [--] gets this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022292125035962598)  2026-02-13T12:49Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Poptimism killed us. It became uncool to say that the MCU and Fast and the Furious movies weren't art or that maybe you should try to listen to something besides Beyonce. hipster backlash seems so quaint in retrospect. we were mad at guys for. drinking IPA listening to neutral milk hotel hipster backlash seems so quaint in retrospect. we were mad at guys for. drinking IPA listening to neutral milk hotel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022355891463557487)  2026-02-13T17:03Z 17.5K followers, 54.6K engagements


"I remain mystified that progressive American prublications keep posting stuff on the Caucasus that's this terrible. My guess is that it's an obscure enough topic that people can't tell what's absolute crankery. You can talk about the failures of the Pashinyan government while not using terms like "de-democratization" or accusing it of doing absolutely nothing to defend Nagorno-Karabakh. You can talk about a failure to continue the initial anti-corruption push but the idea that Armenia today is more corrupt than it was under Sargsyan let alone Kocharyan is absurd and I'm not sure why a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022403752452317675)  2026-02-13T20:13Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@DucDeVinny @Arnold_Platon This ducking rocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022422297026662798)  2026-02-13T21:27Z 17.5K followers, [--] engagements


"This is honestly almost the opposite of the truth tbh. Ancient Greeks associated a tan skin tone with masculinity working in the fields or training for war. The chithon the standard Greek tunic left large parts of the body exposed to the sun. Light skin was associated with aristocratic women and effeminate in adult men. By contrast ancient Persian costume covered much of the body in part to keep a light skin tone. @ThatchEffendi Those specific people No they have very little if any knowledge of the Celts on Ireland. But ALL Ancient Greek sources take pains to point out exactly how wildly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022621807732244880)  2026-02-14T10:39Z 17.5K followers, 37.3K engagements


"You can tell New Vegas was made by aging Gen X guys because the "cool villain" wears a sleeveless leather duster and has dreadlocks. He looks like he's in a [----] Nine Inch Nails video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2019499655613108578)  2026-02-05T19:53Z 17.5K followers, 1.1M engagements


"In [----] people who were religiously Christian linguistically Greek and genetically mostly indigenous to the Pontic highlands of the northeastern Black Sea were willing to die for the last scrap of what they believed to be Rome. https://t.co/xMA4gZh973 https://t.co/xMA4gZh973"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020757419882660173)  2026-02-09T07:11Z 17.5K followers, 154.5K engagements


""The king ordered it" is really underappreciated. It's so funny because he initially pretends to have no idea what this is about and then gradually it becomes clear that it matters to him that his ancestors did this on the king's orders. one of the best line deliverers television has ever known laughed so hard at every single one of these https://t.co/1qS5QIaZtu one of the best line deliverers television has ever known laughed so hard at every single one of these https://t.co/1qS5QIaZtu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021878191997002158)  2026-02-12T09:25Z 17.5K followers, 72.1K engagements


"Is there a single piece of evidence that the ancient Greeks thought they had more in common with Celts in Ireland or Mordvins than they did with Phoenicians or Persians Of course this sort of rhetoric pretends to not understand that "white" is just shorthand for "people of European descent". We have primary sources about the Greco-Persian Wars and they make it quite clear that the Greeks did understand themselves whatever their internecine Of course this sort of rhetoric pretends to not understand that "white" is just shorthand for "people of European descent". We have primary sources about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022572939804332447)  2026-02-14T07:25Z 17.5K followers, 65.6K engagements


"One of the weird effects of killing every predator above the size of a badger is that English folklore became full of threatening badgers. According to English folklore the devil was in the habit of tricking boys into skipping church by challenging them to a game of cricket. He was also known to appear in the form of an enormous badger leading them on a merry chase so that they missed church entirely. https://t.co/9aJBosROgE According to English folklore the devil was in the habit of tricking boys into skipping church by challenging them to a game of cricket. He was also known to appear in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022579637545574811)  2026-02-14T07:52Z 17.5K followers, 255.3K engagements


"Someone's never been in an Istanbul airport. Women deal with periods pregnancy menopause wtf do men deal with https://t.co/iruiZ7KyhP Women deal with periods pregnancy menopause wtf do men deal with https://t.co/iruiZ7KyhP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2020433301794861511)  2026-02-08T09:43Z 17.5K followers, 1.4M engagements


"It's not useful to deny that there was a major decline in social complexity or population between 400-700 in most of Europe but by [----] you're dealing with a society that's incredibly sophisticated and going in interesting directions. I don't know if it's that useful to compare it with Rome but it's less premised on near-genocidal violence than the late Republic/early Empire and probably more technologically interesting than the Empire. Contrary to what Twitter historians will tell you the Dark Ages were very dark and the Middle Ages were better but still not as good as Roman times. Contrary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2021603202307682637)  2026-02-11T15:12Z 17.5K followers, 16.7K engagements


"This is a map of where the earliest speakers or the Hungarian language came from. Ah yes your typical Hungarian couple. Hungary is 95% White by the way. You cant escape the propaganda. https://t.co/WerpThWMsQ Ah yes your typical Hungarian couple. Hungary is 95% White by the way. You cant escape the propaganda. https://t.co/WerpThWMsQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022424621375721954)  2026-02-13T21:36Z 17.5K followers, 42.5K engagements


"One of the oldest Zoroastrian hymns is The Lament of the Cow which is often used in reconstructions of the ancient Avestan language and earlier Indo-Iranian. Given that both Zoroastrianism and Hinduism emerged as attempts at reforming a shared Indo-Iranian religion and culture that was quite vicious and justified contiuous warfare partially by reference to maintaining cosmic order through cow-sacrifice it makes sense that religious reformers would be interested in shifting or undermining this core belief. Zoroastrianism is Hindu coded. https://t.co/yQake6ZSLJ Zoroastrianism is Hindu coded."  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022719473837326627)  2026-02-14T17:07Z 17.5K followers, 17.7K engagements


"Something I genuinely resent about the Heritage American/White Culture discourse is that it flattens out all of the eccentricities of European American life and culture. I'm an ethnic Mormon raised in Chicago. Those are very different places Besides that my mother's family were very early converts to Mormonism and we have roots in Colonial settlers of New England. That's also a distinct place with a distinct culture I don't understand why you a Internet Chud have a claim to the place my ancestors come from just because we're both pasty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/2022745914792874094)  2026-02-14T18:53Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements

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