# ![@TomSneddon14 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1498185386908127236.png) @TomSneddon14 Tom Sneddon

Tom Sneddon posts on X about russia, ukraine, hungary, france the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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**Social topic influence**
[russia](/topic/russia), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine), [hungary](/topic/hungary), [france](/topic/france), [budapest](/topic/budapest), [poland](/topic/poland), [italy](/topic/italy), [if you](/topic/if-you), [ireland](/topic/ireland), [germany](/topic/germany)

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

"@DrHueyLi I think at this point we need a sort of reverse Occam's razor for the extremes of the horseshoe: The least parsimonious most bizarre most convoluted possible explanation is the correct one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1673001500988125184)  2023-06-25T16:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Maii_Degeese @Sturgeons_Law Taking it all out on Call of Duty Nazis IS the therapy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1673317209395937293)  2023-06-26T13:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Juleschao @AdamHartScience I will just add that a bunch of [--] year olds finding out there's a weed outside that will kill you that all the grown ups are freaking out about it and now knowing what it looks like does massively increase the chances of something bad happening. They should get rid of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1678680485654831105)  2023-07-11T08:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ch1w33th3d0g The thing is this culture totally is being preserved. A solid 3% or so of Bavarians are totally into this and that keeps it going - hence the video. And the rest don't care about it and get on with their lives. There's simply no problem requiring a solution here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1678795510281383937)  2023-07-11T15:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@herdyshepherd1 In some places it makes intuitive sense - like in a bog no aerobic decomposition so organic material tends to accumulate year on year. But what gets me most is cities. These houses in Budapest wre built at street level in the 1700s but since then street level has risen. Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1679022784507248645)  2023-07-12T07:16Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@ArmchairCopelrd @EmbassyofRussia @mfa_russia @MoatsTV @georgegalloway @jacksonhinklle @thevaibhavag @Amb_Ulyanov @RusEmbUSA @GUnderground_TV @RussiaUN @mission_russian Biden could literally have posted this tweet like 💪💪"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1679040829120208897)  2023-07-12T08:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@wartranslated I'm a (comparatively) committed climate doomer but even I can't compete with Russian doomers for sheer doominess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1679072777742041088)  2023-07-12T21:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@0xKruzr @beanlump @revhowardarson Theres a lot we dont know. E.g. if ocean temp. rise causes mass phytoplankton die-off thats a major carbon sink gone forest fire emissions are unpredictable methane from permafrost melt etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1679141317593509892)  2023-07-12T14:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@0xKruzr @beanlump @revhowardarson Also note - to kill billions it doesnt need to make the planet uninhabitable - it just needs to make industrial farming unviable and the margins in which it feeds us all are surprisingly narrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1679141627057655809)  2023-07-12T14:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jamforyou_ Masculine energy thrives in adversity etc. Many opportunities to learn and grow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1686305987680964609)  2023-08-01T09:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@WidgetFactory5 @OSUgrad73 @AssaadRazzouk Precisely this. There's an odd misconception among 'sceptics' that every anti-fossil-fuel activist is also irrationally anti-nuclear. In reality climate activists were among the loudest voices against Germany closing its reactors. Nuclear should definitely be part of the mix"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1686648862495100928)  2023-08-02T08:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@WidgetFactory5 @OSUgrad73 @AssaadRazzouk .though its stable/rising cost and the declining cost of renewables may make it a shrinking element in the energy mix. Still valuable for totally adjustable energy supply though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1686649202040774657)  2023-08-02T08:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@peteandrepete_ @maiamindel @soland_michael It's easy to mix them up though - he was in Edge of Love as well. The trouble is in any given [--] year period all British films use the same six actors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1688882269916655617)  2023-08-08T11:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ukrainolution @reshetz Surely not. All Ive heard from conservatives these past few years is more money for preventative fire safety and why arent more of my tax dollars going to Hawaii"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1690627836443344896)  2023-08-13T07:34Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@SweezyUno @FieldMarshallOT @WeatherProf Grasping the concept of "we had this thing before but now it's worse and more frequent" seems to be like quantum mechanics for some people. Here try this: "Corrupt politicians Pff pretty sure there were some corrupt politicians in 1776" 🙄🙄🙄"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1693941584633504008)  2023-08-22T11:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@agraybee I dunno. Having to translate it changes things. Its the same with say Shakespeare - static in English but e.g. German keeps producing new translations playing with the language getting new effects. Its like with music: Let It Be is static - theres [--] authentic version"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1696034720075706499)  2023-08-28T05:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@agraybee But with Beethoven you have to interpret the sheet music by playing it. And theres no definitive version. So people keep doing it differently adding a new interpretative slant giving it something fresh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1696035356452458633)  2023-08-28T05:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@reshetz This is amazing. Bring on [----]. I don't even mind if Egypt and Ethiopia go to a BRICS meeting and sign some long rambling communiqu about multipolarity. Hell sign two. Knock yourselves out. But Crimea is Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1696119964262891761)  2023-08-28T11:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@james_rands Dunkirk messes your head a lot with the timeline - the [--] week [--] hour [--] day thing. He was clearly gearing up for another round of time-bending head fuckery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1697002681645117723)  2023-08-30T21:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bartaway @DylanBurns1776 Babies today couldn't. Today's babies are all on their strawberry vapes glued to their iPads crying for their mommies. Chinese babies could kick their asses underwater (though I'd still give US babies a slight advantage in a land-based contest)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1698677204681433539)  2023-09-04T12:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@dee_of_e This one time at university I ate a 1kg microwaved frozen lasagna at a single sitting and was sick for [--] days #KevinBacon #truelovewaits #KevinBacon #whereareyouKevin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1699078130084860059)  2023-09-05T15:12Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@RobG4661 @GeorgeMonbiot What's the weather like in the universe where "nothing very striking or original" means "I wholeheartedly endorse this thing" The Great Reset can not be a diabolical plan to take over the world and still also not be very good policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1701166769711296519)  2023-09-11T09:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@cheapncheerless Guys guys cmon. You cant just treat history as one big grievance mine. Youve got to be the bigger person. Anyhow back to the tragedy of Moscow and its imaginary library"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1701335732336332905)  2023-09-11T20:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Wengerbrawl @nikicaga Funny to me how (Central and Eastern) Europe has kinda drifted back to that as though its the neutral state. Czech + Slovakia basically democratic. Hungary and Poland much less so. Russia much less again. Austria rightist and parochial. The difference of course is Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1703510714793504845)  2023-09-17T20:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GoldwagNathan So aside from everything else he's accused of rape and sexual assault which are unambiguously crimes (also in the UK). Plus "scuzzy scumbag behaviour Yes". Ok so he hasn't been charged - right now we're all just calling him a horrendous asshole and. you agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1704540738552287637)  2023-09-20T16:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jamforyou_ As a guy who spent weeks watching the opposition alliance neck and neck with Fidesz in the polls before last years election in Hungary only to be absolutely crushed I refuse to get even a single hope up that PiS will lose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1704855020955722235)  2023-09-21T13:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@derJamesJackson Willing to fight with all the ferocity of a nation with not much else going for it for the lecs spelling. But it aint real unless it was made by a [--] year old Hungarian granny and stored in 5-litre glass jars with faded paper labels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1704954907252449729)  2023-09-21T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@youngvulgarian Bit like the 'why won't anybody work in my dogfood factory for [--] quid an hour anymore' people. We're having the 'why are you workshy' conversation instead of 'why do you think it's shit' because a) the answer is obvious b) we're v. heavily invested in not fixing those things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1706294125950046660)  2023-09-25T13:06Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@MaxNighswander @nikicaga Andrew Tate is (he says) a Muslim but its all the same cinematic universe. Everyone agrees sacrificing chickens was once legit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1706404890182901808)  2023-09-25T20:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ArchysLife I remember dad telling me about visiting Greece when it was under the Generals: he saw a black car screech to a halt drag someone off the pavement and drive off but . apart from that it was nice. Plenty of wine and good food. I picture Mussolini's Italy as similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1706634548837007769)  2023-09-26T11:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@David492111 Im generally a fan of Gardeners World and I like that theyve moved away from a focus on pesticides and neat lawns but imo theres too much time given to tropical paradise gardens full of banana plants and bromelia - and not enough on winter care for such a garden"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1706906158311645588)  2023-09-27T05:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Callum_TH @Shogun_lux @Akiriety Right yes but if we assume OP to be referring roughly to the EU the post makes sense: it's a densely populated patchwork of woods fields towns and villages. If you get lost you'll find your ways back to civilisation eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1709199136740798720)  2023-10-03T13:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BallsInYaMe0wth @la_skalas @ianbremmer "Euros are freeloaders cuz they're poor""  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1709638981569126410)  2023-10-04T18:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nikicaga Reminds me of this map re Hungarian revisionism (I dont endorse this map btw Hungary shouldnt get an inch more land) but its fair to say some claims are crazier than others. Nagorno Karabakh as Armenian territory is not crazy. This Western Armenia thing totally is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1928908180676898984)  2025-05-31T20:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Ivan191793 @nikicaga Fair. It isnt really a comparison - and like I said I dont actually think Hungary should be an inch bigger. Its just that I think you could make an analogous map for Armenia - Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh Fair. Nachchivan Pushing it. Western Armenia Lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1928977547028529452)  2025-06-01T00:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CurtainSilicon @simonmontefiore My Cyrillic is rusty but is . Isaac Newton Kind of a left-field choice tbh if youre only going for one foreigner but I guess theres only an intellectual 4% inclined to vote for a non-Russian and maybe Newton fits that demographic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1935274411457921423)  2025-06-18T09:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nikicaga Henry VIII when he sees VATICANLANTIN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1935315352222597360)  2025-06-18T12:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nikicaga NGL though some of these are improvements. Montenegro already has a cool flag but the double headed eagle thing is overdone - this one is classy. Also Slovenia has some Mondrian-esque cool about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1935315984933642569)  2025-06-18T12:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CreativeDeduct @ediz1975 I love urban cycling and I wish it was as popular as in Amsterdam or Copenhagen but come on theres an objective difference. If you even added traffic lights to the crossing Im sure virtually all car drivers would stop on a red whereas Id be surprised if 50% of cyclists did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1937209484323225741)  2025-06-23T18:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BrogineVC @ad0rnai Here in Budapest I dont have A/C and its not that bad It only bothers me at night but its still cool enough after dark that if I crack the windows its fine. Your colleagues are wearing sweaters in an AC room because theyve acclimatised. Theyre genuinely cold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1937452174528659921)  2025-06-24T10:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Bartaway With the amount of scams in Russian/Russian proxy units that involve exchanging weapons/ammo for cash Russias criminal underworld must be absolutely awash with top military gear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1938863020048032151)  2025-06-28T07:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ObiKhan1962 @neontaster Note though that support means more than food - also firewood construction timber thatch etc. [---] acres is way more than even a big family could actually farm without machines but it would let you move to a new patch when the nutrients in one patch were depleted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1939017843581821002)  2025-06-28T17:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Justinhead1982 @Tatarigami_UA Im not an expert but from my understanding the problem is the sheer length of the front line plus the fact that Ukraine has always had to defend the full length of its land border with Russia and Belarus as well as the front line within Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1939220044551970866)  2025-06-29T07:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Copeopolis @phoss2501 He has to because Carnivore Aurelius - if it was all vegetable beds then all his carnivore friends would call him gay so he has to pretend total smallholding self-sufficiency and a slab of beef every day are compatible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1939547262113452257)  2025-06-30T04:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@AndroidNeera @captgouda24 @CatocatAnthony So the colonial period is approximately the bit between the two lines. Which is no endorsement of colonialism - GDP/C clearly rose post independence and if 25% growth in [--] decades is small beer 0% growth in [--] centuries is an indictment of something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1940142140941541686)  2025-07-01T20:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@P_Kallioniemi Youre asking why Finland was put in the axis of darkness Im asking even more frantically why Ireland was put in this very dubious axis of light. Desperately putting in applications to join the dark side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1941003015567323296)  2025-07-04T05:15Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@S2artMike @Shadoo_creeture Especially cats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1941098367213584451)  2025-07-04T11:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CSMFHT Alcibiades would get into endless scandals but I reckon hed have that Trump-like ability to stay popular regardless. Hed absolutely love twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1941481359496872151)  2025-07-05T12:56Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@nikicaga Or Lithuania and Latvia. Genuinely dont know what his problem is. Hed vote for JV in Latvia and probably Homeland Union in Lithuania. Whats incomprehensible about it Its basically the same left/right stuff as everywhere else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1943049203460325699)  2025-07-09T20:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nofilteronmouth @WillManidis The flipside is all the amazing places that the hive mind isnt interested in. I visited Beauvais cathedral a couple of years ago. Jaw-dropping one of the most amazing (and precarious) architectural monuments in Europe. Totally empty and clearly never gets many visitors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1945900717606383644)  2025-07-17T17:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ChrisO_wiki Paradoxical that the most inhumane thing Ukraine can do to Russian prisoners they hold is release them and send them home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1946134873892151404)  2025-07-18T09:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@agraybee There is indeed an analogy here. Once youre on ozempic youre probably on it for life - youve permanently outsourced managing your appetite to a pill. Similarly once you go AC youve kinda given up on just rolling with the weather and adapting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1946954766988308510)  2025-07-20T15:26Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@VoxPrudentia @agraybee Im actually not anti-ozempic (Im a euro so Im militantly anti-AC but ozempic agnostic). I just think theres a parallel. Once you embrace them youre kind of tacitly accepting that living without this supporting tech is no longer really feasible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947007206953550174)  2025-07-20T18:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@trainfacts2022 @VoxPrudentia @agraybee I came here to fight people about AC and now here I am accidentally fighting about ozempic because OP drew the parallel and I picked it up. OK heres a new parallel: in Europe we increasingly need AC because the climate is warming- what used to be mild summers are now hellish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947025040777634211)  2025-07-20T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@trainfacts2022 @VoxPrudentia @agraybee So you plug in an AC. Great. But that doesnt actually fix the underlying problem - a climate crisis. So with food. Id argue that the underlying problem is a food system that pushes calorie dense nutritionally poor foods. Ozempic helps tackle the malign effects of this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947025726412104064)  2025-07-20T20:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@trainfacts2022 @VoxPrudentia @agraybee but if the food system was fundamentally healthy you very likely wouldnt need appetite suppressant medication to manage the consequences of it. That said yes in the current food environment Ozempic certainly helps people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947026228814270622)  2025-07-20T20:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@trainfacts2022 @VoxPrudentia @agraybee The point isnt really the emissions from the units themselves its that this has always been a temperate pleasant liveable climatic zone. I want to fight to keep it that way and turning my home into a sealed temperature controlled bubble feels like tacitly accepting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947134882674626652)  2025-07-21T03:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ATwinEarth @circisbest @EternalDago @hai_torto Funny - I hate all the askgrok shit but this is one of those places where AI is eminently useful (sifting through large texts for concepts) and easily verifiable That said I still like OPs post - Italy was a vague concept at best like the Balkans. https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahi_serva_Italia_di_dolore_ostello https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahi_serva_Italia_di_dolore_ostello"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947758025152074166)  2025-07-22T20:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@jkeating007 @the_transit_guy The reason its annoying is because its so popular with tourists - and its so popular with tourists because its so good. In the spring I was in Banska Stiavnica in Slovakia which has a similar urban design to Montmarte (narrow pedestrian streets lots of steps) and it was great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1947946297941446749)  2025-07-23T09:06Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BamaExpat Spain (and Sweden) are the only really weird ones here. Otherwise wine has held out and honesty Poland switching to beer from vodka is a W. Shame about Romania I guess but overall the blending is all positive even if it makes an ugly map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1949807263469707428)  2025-07-28T12:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@HarcourtYthan I think TACO might get us there. Hes as much of a bluffer about nukes as Putin but arming Ukraine is low-risk inexpensive and relatively popular. Not much downside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1951560639647760552)  2025-08-02T08:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sapitonmix With different leadership Russia could have joined the EU in about [----] become its absolutely indispensable member and outpaced Poland and the Baltics in GDP/C growth. Wouldnt have taken a genius either just normal sane political leaders. Huge natural advantages squandered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1951565173459919117)  2025-08-02T08:46Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@VelvetPhysics Giving the German-speaking bit to Germany and not Austria is just silly. Switzerland is where the Habsburgs were originally from And nobodys scared of a slightly bigger Austria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1951638590229717450)  2025-08-02T13:37Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@EdeleMancini @VelvetPhysics In the end the Italian bit would get autonomy like Sdtirol. One thing I will give Italy credit for is leaving Sdtirol tf alone to do its thing and not trying too hard to impose Italianness. Zero chance of France being like yeah whatev Geneva do your thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1951737453120737575)  2025-08-02T20:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MediaWeasel The sound of a car failing to start on a winter morning. The turn of the key the chk-chk-chk-chk-chk of the ignition the silence. Your dads half audible curse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1951739535043256772)  2025-08-02T20:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChrisO_wiki Realistically with the minefields desertification wholesale asset plunder and depopulation due to Russias inability to provide even drinking water the Donbas and south-bank Kherson regions are unlikely to ever recover are they Absolute fucking nightmare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1952037817028120737)  2025-08-03T16:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@UKaForceForGood @s8mb Properly used the term rewilding should refer to landscape-level projects where you can leave large herbivores (and maybe even carnivores) to shape the landscape in unexpected ways. On a uni campus yeah unless you manage it its just going to be brambles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1952434954597495175)  2025-08-04T18:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MI8Sec5 @fakehistoryhunt Especially in this context. Like yeah loose talk costs lives and all but if the enemy is in the bunker listening in then youve got bigger problems than opsec"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1953180811852697714)  2025-08-06T19:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nikicaga Im exactly the opposite - I like Serbia or at least all the Serbians I met in Belgrade but Im convinced if Serbia got into the EU now the infusion of cash would cement Vui in power and youd have another Orbn with no incentive to behave because hes already in the club"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1962250186664595692)  2025-08-31T20:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BalticJames @clement_molin Kharkiv is indeed within glide bomb range which is why residential areas in the city are frequently hit by glide bombs. We could compare it with other bombings by other armies that dont care about civilians if you like but the evils committed by Israel say dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970113376522314081)  2025-09-22T13:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BalticJames @clement_molin absolve Russia of a damn thing. We could also compare it with Aleppo a city razed to the ground in large part by the Russian air force when it did have air superiority as a good indication of what Russia would do if it only had the capacity to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970113697210327223)  2025-09-22T13:11Z [---] 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


"@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


"@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


"@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


"@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


"@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

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